Pick the apps to block
Choose the apps that usually win your attention before your book does.
App blocker + reading habit
Read first. Scroll later.
Read to Unlock blocks distracting apps until you earn your way back in. Every page you read is worth 1 minute — pass a short quiz to bank it, then spend your balance on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube whenever you want.
Free to start. Pro from $4.99/month. Android is in closed beta.
Works on iOS and Android
1 page = 1 minute
Balance carries across days
Make distraction earn its place.
No vague productivity promise. The rule is simple: choose the apps, read pages to earn minutes, prove you understood, then spend your balance.
Read to earn minutes
Every page is worth 1 minute. No daily goal — read as much or as little as you want.
Pass the quiz to bank it
Answer 3 quick questions and get 2 right to add those minutes to your balance. Activate them whenever you want your apps unlocked.
Six reasons people install it.
Every one of them starts the same way: a blocker that stopped working. The fix is the same too — the unlock is not a button, it's pages.
You've bypassed every blocker
Timers end in an “ignore” button, and the blocker itself gets deleted the moment you want the feed. Here there is nothing to skip: minutes exist only after pages read and a quiz passed.
The book has sat there for months
Wanting to read was never the problem — the trigger was. TikTok becomes the reason you open the book instead of the reason you never do.
The 40-minute evening scroll
Before bed the feed wins by default. Run the trade the other way: 40 pages buys those 40 minutes back, and you fall asleep having actually read.
Exam week and deadlines
Social apps stay shut while you study and reopen against reading you really did — not against a timer you can reset.
Commutes and waiting rooms
Dead time turns into balance. Read on the bus, bank the minutes, spend them later — whatever you don't spend carries over to the next day.
A parent and a teenager
Parent Mode is PIN-protected: you set the earn rate, the quiz rule and the maximum balance, and your teen never sees settings or billing.
Built around one simple loop.
Read to Unlock is not a generic timer or tracker. It turns reading into a minute balance you spend on the apps that usually win first.
Start free. Upgrade when the ritual works.
The best paywall moment comes after a user completes the first unlock and feels the product doing its job.
Free
$0
- Earn minutes by reading, 1 page = 1 minute
- 1 blocked app
- 1 built-in book
Pro
$4.99/mo
or $29.99/year — save 50%
- Block every distracting app
- Full library access
- EPUB and PDF imports
- One minute balance across all your reading
Turn scrolling into a reward.
Put one useful habit in front of the apps that usually take the first tap.